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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard
Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...
A Life with Lycaenids
At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we...
Randall Thompson
To many music lovers, the name Randall Thompson '20 brings first to mind the lofty sounds of his most famous anthem, based on the single word...
Boogie-Woogie
It's a small exhibition, but a bit of a blockbuster. "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings" focuses on a group of 17 paintings that...
A Worldly Professor
The Tutor David G. Golden '80, J.D. '83, recalls wallowing in a "sophomore slump" after an academically indifferent fall term...
Philanthropy in a New Key
John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had financial training before enrolling...
Museums in Motion
Spirits quickened inside certain Harvard museums this winter when the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles, began...
An Historian Plays Ball
Portrait by Flint Born. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa. Historical photographs courtesy of Associated Press. As the class settles in...
Unhealthy Hospitals
How academic medical centers got in trouble, why it matters, and what can be done to help sustain their social mission in a competitive healthcare market.
Edward Sheldon
Brief Life of a secret dramaturge: 1886-1946